Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bread, not Bayonets. At the western gateway to the Mediterranean, Generalissimo Francisco Franco, facing a foodless winter, turned to Britain and the U. S. with a plea for aid. From Britain, Franco asked credit, food and the lifting of the blockade to permit imports to reach Spain...
...chalet-type hostelry has been added to the facilities of Franco. It is operated by Hans Thorner, who in recent winters has conducted a ski school at Pinkham Notch. Skiers will be in forested to know that Ted Hunter, former Dartmouth and Olympic team skier who is now a student of architecture, furnished the clever plans to transform of a large house into a pleasing replies of Swiss chalet with a huge fireplace, bedroom balconies, and other typical Alpine Features. Cannon Mountain skiers can run right into the Thorner House yard by way of the Coppormine or Tucker Brook...
German and Moorish aid were, he pointed out, far more effective, and probably represented Franco's margin of victory. However, the use of Moorish troops alienated a large portion of the liberal forces of the Catholic Church from the Rebels...
Hatred for Franco and his Moorish troops, and fear of the attempts of Germany and Italy to make Spain a puppet state, served to unite formerly antagonistic groups into a coherent force which held out for three years against overwhelming odds...
...Franco," said Negrin, "was the weakest of the important Spanish generals, and was therefore selected to lead the Revolt." Stronger men, such as Mola, strongly opposed foreign intervention, and were consequently not acceptable to the Germans and Italians...